The idle process takes up whatever CPU time is left over for example my idle process is now taking 99% of the CPU as I'm not doing anything that takes any processing.
Take a look at what's using the 24% and how much of your RAM is in use. Shaolin .: http://www.security-forums.com :. Share your knowledge It's a way to achieve Immortality. ----- Original Message ----- From: "baba ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: idle process? > > > > Hello > > My machine is responding really slow now.After I run Process viewer > program,here is what I find > > Process:Idle Pid : 0x0 Cpu :76% Desciption:system idle > Priority:0 Thread :0 > Properties : no path , no command line , no current directory > no parent ,no version > > > Did my machine get infected with a malicious code,How come a process > running idle can take up to 76% of Cpu ? > > Thank you again! > > Baba >
